Q:
Would the calculator example be needed for the assignment.
A:
No, but not doing it means your skill level doesn’t improve.
If you are running out of time, complete exc 2 and particularly exc 5.
Q:
Tried using files I downloaded. Date format is different. Should I change the date format?
A:
Load the file in Excel. Delete the top few lines which are list of
sensors. Save the file. Check in a text editor if the format is
correct.
This is one of the issues being highlighted when you were asked to
remove I/O from data classes. You had to make the I/O operators
non-friends and non-members. If the Date class had format
dependencies, you would have to be continually modifying the Date class
for every format change. Imagine the changes that you would have to do
if the approach highlighted above didn’t work.
Did you download your own data files to use for testing in assignment 1?